Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.